[Lertsiri]

I am a Mac Fan all the way and happen to be in the independant film business/ Soundtrack making side as well...Hope to make friends here!

Question concerning Mac Audio..does anyone know what happens if I plug a firewire cable from my Powerbook 17 to my Korg Triton Studio 88 MLan board (Planning to get)...would it detect it and I wouldn't need an analog connection between the two to record sounds into SOUNDTRACK?
Complicated...but Key point is MLAN and its compatibility....whats it for does it totally render MIDI connection useless?my xanga site my homepage with Pics of me and my home studio

[tr]

man...mLAN. i've been waiting for a couple years for this to come to fruition. supposedly, X has supported mLAN since 10.2.4. but who knows? maybe it will see the keyboard, maybe it won't. it would be sweet if it worked right off the bat.

it would be nice to totally get rid of my USB midi box, and connect audio AND MIDI by a single firewire cable. at least there are more FW audio/MIDI interfaces out there than there were a couple years ago, but, the ball's rolling pretty slowly.

check out this site, and maybe post on the forums over there if you have some more questions on mLAN:

http://www.mlancentral.com/index.html

tr

[Lertsiri]

Thanks TR, I hope that MLAN works off the bat as a Lacie D2 firewire HD does.. It would be sweet to see my keyboard "Korg Triton Studio 88" on my desktop! HEHE....if anyone out there has an answer to this questoin please post replies! I have asked people at Yamaha and Korg but no one seems to know....even the Sam Ash People that sold me the Keyboard didn't know...MLan is really new in the synthesizer market.....but I would not like to buy a midi box based on USB or Firewire if the direct hook up from my Korg Triton Studio 88 and my Powerbook 17" worked directly seeing each other. It would be a dream to see the 5 gig Hdd on the Triton Studio 88 when downloading files from the web (samples and wavs) or to be able to have music or instruments being played directly into the powerbook for onscreen editing in Soundtrack or similar programs.......Anyone else with a comment? homepage with pictures of my gig and bio my xanga webdiary with song

[tr]

i don't know if you'd see the keyboard on the desktop, but i bet you'll see it in Audio MIDI setup. i mean, i plug in my USB Midisport 2x2, and it see it, and the Roland keyboard connected...okay, it reports the Roland as an XP-80, when it's actually an old Juno-106 analog, but it saw a keyboard connected (i just have to make my own little device name and pic )

the HD in the korg...i don't know if X would see that. i guess it would depend on what kind of format the drive is in, but again, this is all speculation.

i think the problem with this whole mLAN thing and getting answers is that 1) there aren't a lot of mLAN devices out there 2) the ones that are out there are pricey 3) no one really has tried them out (probably because of 2)

tr